Research Progress on Animal Model for Cancer-related Fatigue

Abstract

Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common symptom which associated with cancer itself or cancer treatments. CRF will not only interrupt the patient's treatment, but also affect the patient's quality of life seriously. To date, the pathogenesis of CRF is still unclear, and recognized effective treatment is lacking. It is the precondition of establishing standardized animal models for CRF to find effective treatments. This paper summarizes the animal model of CRF in order to find suitable methods, and distinguish the effects of different interventions.

Keywords

• cancer
• cancer-related fatigue
• animal models
• modeling method